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Climate and Population
It is amazing that in all the discussions and sermons about the need to
arrest the climate change hardly anyone mentions the one variable that
causes to largest threat and at the same time is the easiest to control. It
is the uncontrolled - and heavily subsidised - growth in the world's
population. Most countries explicitly encourage the birth rate and
commentators never tire to complain about the danger of a shrinking
population. Aid to the Third World - where the problem is most acute - is
given with no strings attached and hardly a politician visiting these
countries dares to state the obvious. Ghana, for example, has seen its
population grow from less than 7 million in 1960 to an estimated 26 million
in 2010. One only has to imagine what the situation would be like in a
country like France after a similar explosion of population figures: it
would mean that more than 200 million would now be squeezed into the
Hexagon.
Carbon Trade - Bureaucrats
create paradise for scamsters
Apart from the fact that the
carbon trade scheme has been decreed without any democratic participation by the
citizens we have
always argued that the only people to be enriched will be traders, speculators
and - above all - the fraudsters. Much - if not most - of the crime in the world is caused by
ill-conceived legislation (prostitution, drugs, excessive taxes on alcohol and
tobacco to name the most obvious cases) and the agriculture sector so far has
been the most high-profile sector involving fraudulent activity in the 'legal'
business sector. Before long this will be surpassed by trading in carbon
'credits'. Who is going to monitor, measure and account for the activity in
something as ephemeral as air and gas? Certainly not sleepy bureaucrats and
their minions in the - already overstretched - police and judiciary. But the
political class as always operates according to the well-proven rule of the
bureaucrat: why make it simple if it can be complicated (and expensive)? The
obvious way to reduce consumption of fossil fuel
is cheap and effective: let the rising demand cause price to rise and if
necessary increase taxes on fossil fuels. Another observation: the Media are
also complicit in the backroom dealing that gives Lobbies that profit from the
Carbon Trade as the industry representatives are giving excessive space to
propagate their self-serving mantras.
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Decisions you would be able to influence:
By giving the
reader examples of recent policy decisions we highlight the dramatic
impact the introduction of Direct Democracy would have on the
political life of all countries.
All the following decisions where taken without the participation of
the affected citizens. Some - if not most - were highly
controversial and have a negative effect for at least some major
parts of the country's population.
The present system of government
not
only leaves the citizens powerless in the face of a never-ending
tide of legislation, it also inevitably leads to
inefficient use of taxpayer's money and a steady erosion of civil
liberties.
Full list of
decisions the citizens could influence
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GENERAL
Nuclear Powers impose further sanctions on Iran
Should former politicians be allowed to cash in from books and lecture
tours?
Unequal regional distribution of tax burden
Forum demands that climate tax be redistributed on global basis
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND POPULATION
Cap-and-Trade of Carbon Permits and ideal vehicle for fraud
Green Energy plan may cost 17 times more than its benefits
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EUROPE
European Council
members must put interest of the Union above those of their own
countries (Lisbon Treaty, Article 9)
EU prepares
expanded sanctions against Iran
MEP wants tax on carbon-intensive products
EU wants introduction of body scanners on Airports
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UNITED KINGDOM
Minister
states: British forces will be among the last to come home from
Afghanistan
Wind farms will
increasingly dominate most picturesque landscapes
7.6 billion car trip entries stored by police
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DEUTSCHLAND
Solar
Subventionen
erreichen 85 Mrd. Euro
Neue Steuer auf USB Medien
Hartz IV Empfaenger zahlen nicht fuer Strom, Gas
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OESTERREICH
Transparenzkonto: Parteifinanzen ausgenommen
Feinstaubkompetenz fuer Laender und Gemeinden
Mehrwertsteuergrenze manipuliert
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